Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on Nostr: "... Despite these claims, Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, was swiftly overwhelmed with ...

"... Despite these claims, Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, was swiftly overwhelmed with patients. People were dying in beds, on stretchers and in the corridors. In the paediatric wards, children were packed three to a bed. After the laundresses had panicked and fled from the basements, there was no clean linen to be had. Cleanliness, routine and discipline, the bedrock of hospital life, had disappeared."